Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mexico and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ice-T to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Minnie Riperton,
Barbara Tucker,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moby Grape,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Association,
Eric B and Rakim,
Charles Mingus,
Accadde A,
Neu!,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
The Sisters of Mercy,
June Days,
Japan,
EPMD,
Sun City Girls,
The Martian,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Arcadia,
China Crisis,
Mantronix,
Freddie Wadling,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blossom Toes,
DNA,
Country Teasers,
Sugar Minott,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Starr,
Make Up,
DJ Style,
Joe Smooth,
Silicon Teens,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sonics,
The Buckinghams,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cal Tjader,
Animal Collective,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
D'Angelo,
Marine Girls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Finger,
Amon Düül II,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Iggy Pop,
The Star Department,
Deakin,
Rosa Yemen,
Flash Fearless,
Loose Ends,
The Techniques,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moss Icon,
New Order,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Stiv Bators,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.